Xiujuan Geng, Ph.D.

Email:  xiujuan_geng@med.unc.edu

Office: 229 Medical School Wing B

Phone: (919) 966-1392

Education:

B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China 

M.S., Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Duluth 

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa

Summary Statement:

Dr. Geng’s research interests lie in medical image processing and analysis. She has an extensive background in image registration, spatial normalization of diffusion-weighted MRI data and brain morphometry analysis. Her current research focuses on developing and applying structural and diffusion MRI techniques in early brain development studies in normal children including twins and children at risk for psychiatric disorders. She is interested in the investigation of brain functional and structural connectivities, and their genetic heritability in normal and high risk children from age 0 up to age 6.

Representative Publications:

1.  Xiujuan Geng, Thomas J. Ross, Hong Gu, Wanyong Shin, Wang Zhan, Yi-Ping Chao, Ching-Po Lin, Norbert Schuff, Yihong Yang, “Diffeomorphic Image Registration of Diffusion MRI Using Spherical Harmonics”, IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, accepted.

2. Yi-Yuan Tang, Qilin Lu, Xiujuan Geng, Elliot A. Stein, Yihong Yang, Michael I. Posner, “Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulated”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 15649-15652, 2010.

3.  Xiujuan Geng, Hong Gu, Wanyong Shin, Thomas J. Ross, Yihong Yang, “Group-Wise Diffeomorphic Diffusion Tensor Image Registration”, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention,  13(Pt 1):598-606, 2010.

4.  Xiujuan Geng, Gary E. Christensen, Hong Gu, Thomas J. Ross, Yihong Yang, “Implicit Reference-Based Group-wise Image Registration and Its Application to Structural and Functional MRI”, Neuroimage,1341-1351, 2009.

5.  Xiujuan Geng, Dinesh Kumar and Gary E. Christensen, “Transitive Inverse-consistent Manifold Registration”, Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), July, 2005.